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Overview
About Me
CURRENT MISSION
think, travel, write
ABOUT ME
PHILOSOPHY
Knock hard ... life's deaf
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
...extremely positive! I have been the recipient of fantastic generosity, which I hope to return either directly or otherwise via Couchsurfers. I love the idea of hosting folk.
Interests
- traveling
Music, Movies, and Books
BOOKS
Prose fiction: anything by Michel Houellebecq or Jeffrey Eugenides.
Prose nonfiction: Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Derrida.
Poetry: what I like best/ read most ... anything contemporary, experimental, humanistic: Peter Reading, Dan Chaisson, Sharon Olds, Anne Carson, Robert Hass.
MUSIC: Radiohead, Magnetic Fields, early Sonic Youth, Stereolab.
MOVIES: arthouse; anything that's not 'factory-made'!
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
Seen: a 'cloudbow' (that is, a wispy cloud with fantastic, deep rainbow colours) above Brig, Switzerland: surrounded by people, we all collectively hallucinated this amazing, amazing thing ... I was shocked by how beautiful it was!!
Done: the busride to Ladakh from Manali, India: 2 days of sphincter-tightening curves at manic speed, peering over road's edge and into an abyss ...